CoCoCrew Episode 79

Agenda

• Introduction (00:01:04)
  • CoCoFEST! is 4 months away!
  • Tandy Assembly is 9 months away...
  • Recent/current projects
  • eBay (or other) acquisitions
• Announcements (00:06:02)
  • Twitter -- @CoCoCrewPodcast
  • Facebook -- The CoCo Crew Podcast
  • Available on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, and tunein.
  • Available as video episodes on YouTube
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  • Listed on the Game-by-Game Podcast Information Hub
  • Show audio hosted at Cyber Ears
  • Email addresses
    
    
    • show@cococrew.org
    • podcast@cococrew.org
    • feedback@cococrew.org
    
    
    • john@cococrew.org
    • neil@cococrew.org
    • mike@cococrew.org
    • boisy@cococrew.org
    
    
  • VCF East 2022: Apr 29-30, May 1
  • Midwest Gaming Classic: Apr 29 – May 1, 2022
  • “Last” Chicago CoCoFEST!: May 14-15, 2022
  • VCF West: Aug 6-7, 2022
  • Tandy Assembly: Sep 30 - Oct 2, 2022
• News (00:14:43)
  
  • The hotel group rates are now available for the 2022 CoCoFest. (Grant Leighty)
  • Something I've been working on over the past few weeks to make hardware experimentation on the internals of the MC-10 a bit more feasible... (Brendan Donahe)
  • This is a dump of the later version of the Audio spectrum analyzer cartridge. (Shawn Clayton)
  • You can now pick MC-10 from the machine drop-down in XRoar online. (Ciaran Anscomb)
    
    
  • Music theory basics: notes, intervals, scales and chords explained (Computer Music @ MusicRadar)
  • COBOLing Together UI Benefits: How Delays in Fiscal Stabilizers Impact Aggregate Consumption (Michael Navarrete)
  • How Do Various Arduino Sensors Work? (Stefan Ionescu)
  • Watch out Septandy, Here Be Dragons! (KOJRO Retro innovations)
    
    
  • Retrochallenge 2021: Star Lanes (Jim Gerrie)
  • Initial dump of technical information for KAOS\RAWR (Rendering subsystem only). (Chet Simpson)
  • Version 2 of my ROM loading/running utilities. ROMUTILS.BIN adds these functions to basic. (Barry Nelson)
  • “Sooper Pac” - And we thought Jabba The Hut was a glutton. (Richard Kelly)
    
    
  • Mystery Mania by David Leithauser was published in Compute! Magazine December 1987. (Jim Gerrie)
  • Here is the Prince of Persia demo I put together as part of my CoCoFEST! presentation... (Paul Fiscarelli)
  • SDCX 1.30 is now available! I've added a command to boot any of the 8 flash banks of the Coco SDC. (Guillaume Major)
  • Salient Assembly Episode 1 (Tim Lindner)
    
    
  • Dragon 32/64 Use modern Power Supply Replacement and tidy up. (Retro Roamer @ YouTube)
  • BE CAREFUL WHEN CLEANING THE HEADS ON YOUR DRIVES! (Joe Travis)
  • I have successfully imaged the disk for "Labrynth of Chaos" by Michael Setzer. (Robert Rivard)
  • Nice little Basic program that does Palette Animation, Craig Stewart well done mate I like it (Brian Palmer)
    
    
  • Text adventure written in BASIC. "Vaisseau Fantome" was Translated from French by me. (Jim Gerrie)
  • After a couple of tries i finally have a qwerty keyboard board working on my Coco 🙂 (Nik Brisevac)
  • The Alice 4k - a small little red computer from France | 8 bits in the basement (8bitsinthebasement @ YouTube)
  • It’s a mystery (ti84only @ Instagram)
    
    
  • There is no substitute for real hardware. (Allen Huffman)
  • Hacking the ROM in TRS-80 Coco - Improving CSAVE and CLOAD Fidelity - Weak DAC? (ACs 8-Bit Zone @ YouTube)
  • Tandy Assembly 2021 – The greatest Tandy show on Earth! (Jeff Birt)
  • [Coco] XRoar 1.0 released (Ciaran Anscomb)
    
    
  • Dinosaur Run Game in 4K BASIC (Jim Gerrie)
  • Sibling Rivalry Ep1: Intellivision Utopia (Tim Lindner)
     Sibling Rivalry Episode 2 - Combat
     Sibling Rivalry Episode 3 - Color Baseball
     Sibling Rivalry Ep 4 - Shark! Shark!
     Sibling Rivalry Ep5 - Pong
     Sibling Rivalry Ep6 - Wildcatting
  • Why 4:3 Looks So Good (Karsten Runquist)
  • [Coco] AGD converted games - Pack #42 (Pere Serrat)
     [Coco] AGD converted games - Pack #41 - Correction!
• Feedback (00:59:56)
  • "Just a quick Hello and to say Thankyou for mentioning my joystick project in [Episode 73]." -- Nik Brisevac
  • "You look horrible as a Christmas Dark Lord." -- Salvador Garcia
• Host Discussion -- Why pay someone else to do their hobby? (e.g. Patreon, Gofundme, etc) (01:03:39)
• This Month In CoCo History -- December 1983 (01:21:39)
• Tech Segment -- VLSI Primer (01:25:19)
• Neil's Corner -- Review of Blockdown (02:00:37)
• Parting Thoughts (02:04:31)

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